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Platinum Sponsor
Art Bridges Foundation, the vision of philanthropist and arts patron Alice Walton, delivers access to meaningful experiences with art for personal and community well-being through art sharing and community engagement programs. Since 2017, we have partnered with a growing network of nearly 400 museums of many sizes across the United States and its territories, providing financial and strategic support for artwork loans, traveling exhibitions, and transformative programming designed to educate, inspire, deepen engagement with diverse audiences, and highlight interdisciplinary connections.
Our commitment to access extends to empowering our museum partners with insightful, actionable data and resources. Guided by a belief in the power of evaluation to drive meaningful change across the field, we support research and evaluation activities that allow museums to better understand their visitors, measure program impact, and make responsive, evidence-based decisions. For more information, visit artbridgesfoundation.org.
Gold Sponsor
The Collaboration for Ongoing Visitor Experience Studies (COVES) unites museum professionals in a deeper understanding of their visitors through data. Using a standardized measurement tool and systematic data collection methods to collect data, we facilitate a vibrant Community of Practice that seeks to elevate our understanding and use of visitor experience data to inform and improve museum practices.
COVES asks questions about who visits, why they visit, what they see and do during their visit, and how they feel about their experiences. By utilizing a shared measure and common practices, we provide reliable benchmarking for members to contextualize their understanding of the data. With dedicated resources and a collaborative approach to meaning-making, COVES supports many types of visitor-serving organizations including science centers, zoos and aquariums, and art, children’s, history, natural history, and specialized museums.
Silver Sponsor
TERC is a nonprofit leader in STEM education research and innovation. For more than 60 years, TERC has advanced inclusive, impactful STEM learning by developing evidence-based curricula, digital tools, emerging technologies, professional learning, and community-based programs for learners of all ages.
Working at the intersection of research and practice, TERC partners with educators, researchers, families, and communities to design solutions that are relevant, rigorous, and built for real-world impact. TERC develops and advances learning experiences that support classrooms, museums, afterschool programs, workplaces, and community settings, helping learners build curiosity, confidence, and a sense of belonging in STEM.
Today, TERC’s work focuses on expanding career pathways through STEM, strengthening mathematical understanding and identity, highlighting STEM across communities, and leveraging emerging technologies—including AI—to increase access and opportunity for all learners. Through this work, TERC reaches millions of learners and educators across all 50 states and around the world.
Bronze Sponsors
Started in 1962, Association of Children’s Museums (ACM) champions children’s museums worldwide. With more than 500 members in 50 states and 13 countries, ACM is the world’s foremost professional society supporting and advocating on behalf of museums that prioritize serving children and families, and those who work at and otherwise sustain them. We leverage the collective knowledge of children’s museums through convening, sharing, and dissemination.
The Association of Science and Technology Centers (ASTC) is dedicated to increasing the understanding of and engagement with science and technology among all people. Based in North America, supporting the global science engagement field, ASTC creates strategic opportunities, develops intellectual capital, and assembles resources to support our members in realizing their missions and engaging their communities.
C&G Partners is a multi-specialty creative studio, dedicated to design for culture — from cultural organizations to organizational culture.
Garibay Group works with museums and other informal learning organizations to help them better understand, reach, and serve their visitors and communities. We then help organizations interpret results and use that information for strategic decision-making. Our work is grounded in research that blends methods drawn from psychology, anthropology, and experience design.
HG&Co is a visitor-centered planning, strategy, and evaluation firm that focuses on museums and other cultural organizations. We work with organizations to shape organizational strategy, synthesize and make actionable complex data and findings, redesign internal data & evaluation processes, and conduct front-end, formative, remedial, and summative evaluations. Recent clients include the American Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Services, the Tenement Museum, and IMLS.
J. Sickler Consulting is a private, woman-owned evaluation and research firm that turns data into aha moments for museums, zoos, aquariums, environmental educators, and public engagement programs. We help organizations understand what works — and why — so teams can speak confidently about their impact and create more meaningful learning experiences. Our priority is making evaluation and research an accessible, useful tool for every organization, regardless of where they are in the process.
Reimagine Research Group partners with education and cultural institutions to support community-centered research, evaluation, and facilitation processes. We work collaboratively with a broad range of partners to identify goals and outcomes, build reflective practices, and tell stories of program impacts. We use evaluation data and organizational capacity building to support equity and access in museums, libraries, K-12, and higher education, particularly as related to worldviews of science, STEM / STEAM, and place-based learning.
Sarah Lee Consulting helps nonprofits in the arts, culture, and informal learning field use the tools of learning and evaluation to make a deeper and more equitable impact on their communities. We work with our clients to clearly articulate their goals, design their work for impact, rigorously assess what they do, and ground decision-making in a learning mindset.
The STEM Research Center at Oregon State University conducts applied research, evaluation, and consulting with a broad range of partners and audiences. We use our STEM-based expertise to support research translation, workforce development, and data-driven decision-making. We support businesses, non-profits, and public agencies in addition to university-based researchers and educators.